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Rise From The Ruins
Music by Thomas J. Allen
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Chains of the Abyss
Image: Deep beneath the waters of the great river Euphrates, four fallen angels stand chained in darkness. At the center is Azazel, crowned in defiance — the ancient corrupter of mankind. His eyes burn with rage as he waits the appointed hour. Once Watchers of Heaven, they are now prisoners of divine justice, condemned for their rebellion and sealed in silence since the days of Noah. But the hour draws near... when the chains will break, and the abyss will rise.
Verse 1
Beneath the deep, beyond the flame,Four bound angels bear no name.
Chained in silence, cursed in time,
Awaiting orders to unleash the crime.
The Euphrates waits — the seal is cracked,
And war and death are riding back.
Pre-Chorus
Prepared for the hour, the day, the year —To drown the world in wrath and fear.
Chorus
Chains of the abyss — forged in flame,Holding back the ones to maim.
Ancient powers once cast down,
Now rise to wear a thorned crown.
The pit unlocks, the heavens weep —
The Watchers wake from deathless sleep.
Verse 2
Azazel taught the blades of war,Led mankind to blood and lore.
Cast to ruin, left to rot —
Now judgment burns, but mercy not.
Their sins still echo through the dust,
But now their doom is fierce and just.
Bridge
Bound in chains of endless night,For leaving Heaven's holy height.
No stars remain for those who fell —
Just blackest flame and shattered shell.
Breakdown
"Loose the four angels... bound in the great river Euphrates...""Prepared for the hour, the day, the month, the year..."
"To slay a third of mankind..."
"And the smoke of the pit... darkened the sun..."
"And the locusts rose with torment..."
Final Chorus
Chains of the abyss — now torn apart,They rise in fury with frozen hearts.
The age of man begins to fall —
The final trump, the judgment call.
Angels lost in wrath and fire,
Their fate sealed in the lake entire.
Outro
"The high ones on high... shall be gathered in the pit...""After many days... they shall be visited..."
"And whosoever was not found... was cast into the lake of fire..."
Scripture References
Leviticus 16:10 (KJV):
"But the goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make an atonement with him, and to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness."
Isaiah 24:21-22 (KJV):
"And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth. And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited."
2 Peter 2:4 (KJV):
"For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;"
Jude 1:6 (KJV):
"And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day."
Revelation 9:1-15 (KJV):
"And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit. And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice... saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates."
Revelation 20:15 (KJV):
"And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire."
1 Enoch 10:4-13, 15:8-10 (RHC):
"Bind Azazel hand and foot, and cast him into the darkness... and cover him with rough and jagged rocks. And the Lord said... destroy all the children of the Watchers from among men... The spirits of the Nephilim, born from the union of spirits and flesh, shall remain upon the earth and become evil spirits."
Sources: King James Version (KJV – Holy Bible), 1 Enoch (R.H. Charles Translation)